dischdennis wrote: > the line "raise Singleton.__single" invokes in my class the following > error: > > exceptions must be classes, instances, or strings (deprecated), not > PurchaseRequisitionController
Denis, Jason's explanation is correct! You are trying to use the Singleton instance as the exception, which is not only confusing but illegal. The argument of raise should be an instance of a class derived from Exception. You should define some kind of informative Exception class, e.g.: class SingletonException(Exception): pass class Singleton: __single = None def __init__( self ): if Singleton.__single: raise SingletonException() Singleton.__single = self foo = Singleton() # works bar = Singleton() # raises SingletonException Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list